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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jefferson is also doing IB MYP certification, not that that helps anyone in Shepherd Park.

I agree that Bancroft and Oyster should go to MacFarland and on to Roosevelt, and Shepherd should go to New North (when it opens) and then Coolidge.

Adams could be used as a PK campus with priority for schools that don't offer PK3 and plenty of room for early stages and other special ed placements. I also imagine some schools WOTP will run out of room for PK4 eventually, so it could help manage that. [/quote]

Do you really think removing Bancroft and Shepherd is enough to alleviate Deal? 
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Of course not.  It's called "low-hanging fruit."  The hard work is re-drawing the boundaries of Janney, Lafayette, Murch, and Hearst in order to make them smaller.  Obviously those students need to go to Hardy (which will remove Hardy as an OOB feeder for Wilson).

Anyone who thinks the PYP IB program should entitle an elementary school to Deal is kidding themselves and doesn't understand how IB works.  Deal is MYP IB and it's a dead end.  It feeds Wilson which is AP.  It was only a device to coax higher SES parents into the school, but it's middle school.  Yes, IB is more prestigious than AP and takes more work (which is why Wilson hasn't done the work - it doesn't have to).  Eastern HAS done the work (albeit the scores aren't great, but it is theoretically possible to get a prestigious IB diploma from Eastern).

This is part of the DCPS chess game.  You win by leaving.  [/quote]

Yes, win by leaving, but what good does "theoretically" possible at Eastern do those of us in the catchment area?  A high SES student can't in fact get a prestigious IB Diploma from Eastern, because IB Diplomas are really only as good as their pass point totals for the middle class and wealthy kids.  The Eastern kids who pass (only around half who pursue IBD studies) are scraping by with totals in the 20s, mostly in the mid 20s (24-45 points is a pass).  All over the country kids who clear the 40 point bar are routinely rejected by colleges admitting in the single digits.

Why aren't Deal parents making noise about no IB at Wilson?   Wilson could run an integrated IBD-AP program - many high schools do that.  Kids take a two-year course that prepares them well to take either exam.[/quote]

My DC hates the IB program, so I won't be clamoring for it. Nonetheless, apparently Wilson is exploring IB.[/quote]

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